New to Zimbra have a few questions

Hi Group,

I'm new to Zimbra and have a few questions. We are a service provider and have been using Qmail for a long time now. We are looking to move beyond it because of the lack of a web front end other than squirrel mail.

1.) Is the Zimbra Open Source product suited to the service provider customer? We have many customers, each with their own domain.

2.) Do users login with email address or username? I ask because it is possible there are users with potentially the same username under different domains (aka sales@domain1.com and sales@domain2.com) etc..

3.) Besides general LDAP support, is there any other included support/features in the open source version for droid/iphone ?

You caould have got all these answer from the forums and Documentation.

Originally Posted by tom11011

1.) Is the Zimbra Open Source product suited to the service provider customer?

Yes.

Originally Posted by tom11011

We have many customers, each with their own domain.

You can have as many domains as you like.

Originally Posted by tom11011

2.) Do users login with email address or username? I ask because it is possible there are users with potentially the same username under different domains (aka sales@domain1.com and sales@domain2.com) etc..

The user name (for the primary domain on your server) and the fulle username@somedomain.com for others - you can also force the primary domain to use that format.

Originally Posted by tom11011

3.) Besides general LDAP support, is there any other included support/features in the open source version for droid/iphone ?

What the significane of your question about openLDAP? You can use any client that supports IMAP with the open source version.

Originally Posted by tom11011

4.) MS Outlook is supported on the desktop right?

Yes, as an IMAP client. You could also use Zimbra Desktop.

Originally Posted by tom11011

5.) Any shared calendaring functions in the Open source product.

Yes, exactly the same as there is in the Network Edition.

Do take a look at the Product Documentation and the forums/wiki/blog to see what features are in the product versions and whether they would meet your needs.

I installed the open source version of the product this weekend to give a test. I haven't worked with IMAP/SMTP in a while as we use exchange alot.

I'm figuring out though that just about every ISP is now blocking port 25 for smtp. I couldn't use my MS Outlook on the desktop at all as a result and was forced into the web application which is ok.

However, I'm running into the same issue on my android based smart phone, no email for droid either? I'm thinking you must have a solution like Microsofts RPC over HTTP with active sync like ability hopefully to make this trial work.

I'm figuring out though that just about every ISP is now blocking port 25 for smtp.

You'd have to use a service that relays mail to your server via port 587 (the Submission port), you can also use that port for any client that needs to submit mail to the server (or for relay) - that port requires authentication.

You'd have to use a service that relays mail to your server via port 587 (the Submission port), you can also use that port for any client that needs to submit mail to the server (or for relay) - that port requires authentication.

Can you recommend such a service? Other than opening up port 587 on the firewall, is there any other configuration on zimbra needed?

I'm afraid I have never used any of those services so I'm reluctant to recommend any one over another but I seem to remember that DynDNS offered that sort of service (I have used them for DNS services). There might be some recommendations in the forums or there's always a web search

Originally Posted by tom11011

Other than opening up port 587 on the firewall, is there any other configuration on zimbra needed?

No, nothing else would be needed. Are you absolutely sure that port 25 inbound is blocked? If it's just the outbound port 25 then you could relay through any mail server (such as gmail or your ISP).

Yes, I'm actually looking at that right now. The built in app on the droid doesn't seem to allow a smtp username/password combo that is different for both imap and smtp which is a problem as my gmail has a different login than my zimbra email.

I appreciate your help though, hopefully zimbra will have something like active sync or exchange rpc over http in the future, I'll keep my eye on zimbra as it matures.

Originally Posted by phoenix

I'm afraid I have never used any of those services so I'm reluctant to recommend any one over another but I seem to remember that DynDNS offered that sort of service (I have used them for DNS services). There might be some recommendations in the forums or there's always a web search

No, nothing else would be needed. Are you absolutely sure that port 25 inbound is blocked? If it's just the outbound port 25 then you could relay through any mail server (such as gmail or your ISP).